Both cultures encourage innovation and experimentation, but are likely to reject the innovator if his innovation is not accepted b...y audiences. High culture experiments that are rejected by audiences in the creator's lifetime may, however, become classics in another era, whereas popular culture experiments are forgotten if not immediately successful. Even so, in both cultures innovation is rare, although in high culture it is celebrated and in popular culture it is taken for granted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

With Nietzsche, the black pirates' flag appears for the first time on the high sea of German knowledge. (He is) a different man, f...rom a different race, (his,) a new kind of heroism, philosophy ... with bellicose weapons and armor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The Spacious Firmament on high,With all the blue Ethereal Sky,...And spangled Heav'ns, a Shining Frame,Their great Original proclaim:Th' unwearied Sun, from day to day,Does his Creator's Pow'r display,And publishes to every LandThe Work of an Almighty Hand.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

It is a secret from nobody that the famous random event is most likely to arise from those parts of the world where the old adage ..."There is no alternative to victory" retains a high degree of plausibility.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) and... sets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

So far no actual revolutionary masses have come into view. This might be considered sufficient reason for reproaching someone who ...has set out to describe a revolution. But it is not our fault. This is, after all, a German revolution.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, to-day in Germany I am called a German man of science, and ...in England I am represented as a Swiss Jew. If I come to be regarded as a bête noire the descriptions will be reversed, and I shall become a Swiss Jew for the Germans and a German man of science for the English!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the... world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »